No Academic or Behavioral Improvements from Drugging Children

Nor do these drugs improve the learning abilities of students. The National Institutes of Health reported that stimulant drugs used for ADHD result in “little improvement in academic or social skills. In fact, “children who take these drugs fail just as many courses, and drop out of school just as often, as children who did not take the drugs.

Nor do these drugs improve the learning abilities of students. The National Institutes of Health reported that stimulant drugs used for ADHD result in “little improvement in academic or social skills. In fact, “children who take these drugs fail just as many courses, and drop out of school just as often, as children who did not take the drugs.

And “...contrary to popular belief, stimulants like methylphenidate will affect normal children and adults in the same manner that they effect ADHD children. Behavioural or attentional improvements with methylphenidate is not diagnostic of ADHD.”
Is this really what a child needs?

Thomas Moore, author of Prescriptions for Disaster said that the current use of drugs like stimulants is taking “appalling risks” with a generation of kids. The drugs are given, he said, for “short-term control of behaviour—not to reduce any identifiable hazard to [children’s] health. Such large-scale chemical control of human behaviour has not been previously undertaken in our society outside of nursing homes and mental institutions.”

CCHR What we Believe

Drugging Our Children

RECOGNITION OF CCHR

CCHR's humanitarian work has been recognised the world over for ensuring legal rights and protections for consumers and/or their families. Read more...

DRUG WARNINGS

CCHR led the fight for informed consent to psychiatric treatment, obtaining the first law in South Australia in 1979 that granted patients the right to consent to or refuse electroshock treatment. In recent years, it has filed numerous requests to the Therapeutic Goods Administration to reveal all the adverse drug reactions for psychotropic drugs reported to it. Click here to read more

DRUG SIDE EFFECTS

No matter what country someone is prescribed a psychiatric drug, the side effects are the same: dangerous, sometimes life-threatening, but always debilitating. CCHR International in Los Angeles decoded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration psychotropic drug reports database to produce this drug side effects search engine for consumers. This is also relevant to all Australians. You can also view a selection of ADHD drug reactions including Ritalin, Concerta, Dexamphetamine & Strattera obtained by CCHR.

Psychiatric Drugs

An Australian Report Titled, Psychiatric Drugs and Violence documents how Antidepressants and Antipsychotics can Cause Violence.
The report was written as Australians are not adequately warned that psychiatric drugs can cause homicidal actions and thoughts....

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